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Calendyr
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:43 am    Post subject: Background image for console Reply with quote

Hello Doc,

I was trying my hand with the console design for the current version (yes I know that the interface will probably be completelly different with the new release)... anyways, I thought I might come up with a cool console for my club and register again just to use that Wink

So I spend about 3 hours changing things this way and that until I was happy... I save everything and come back an hour later to find out you can't load consoles on the unregistred version (DOH!)

Anyways, I did experience a slight bug, maybe you know about it and it is already corrected for the next version, but I wanted to give you the heads up anyhow.

I did not want dogs playing poker as my background image... after trying a few things, I decided that 3 of the wallpapers for WinXP would do a great job along with semi-tranparent displays: Vortex, Crystal and can't remember the 3rd one. Anyways... when I imported them, the console would have a white strip at the top, as if the ratio of the image was wrong and the console placed a white band there. So I fired up Photoshop and changed the size of the image several times... the white band would change thickness but never dispear. The closest I came to having no band was with an image size of 700 X 480 I think (really not sure).

Well that's about it. Not sure what is causing the issue.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:12 am    Post subject: Re: Background image for console Reply with quote

Calendyr wrote:
Hello Doc,

I was trying my hand with the console design for the current version (yes I know that the interface will probably be completelly different with the new release)... anyways, I thought I might come up with a cool console for my club and register again just to use that Wink

So I spend about 3 hours changing things this way and that until I was happy... I save everything and come back an hour later to find out you can't load consoles on the unregistred version (DOH!)

Anyways, I did experience a slight bug, maybe you know about it and it is already corrected for the next version, but I wanted to give you the heads up anyhow.

I did not want dogs playing poker as my background image... after trying a few things, I decided that 3 of the wallpapers for WinXP would do a great job along with semi-tranparent displays: Vortex, Crystal and can't remember the 3rd one. Anyways... when I imported them, the console would have a white strip at the top, as if the ratio of the image was wrong and the console placed a white band there. So I fired up Photoshop and changed the size of the image several times... the white band would change thickness but never dispear. The closest I came to having no band was with an image size of 700 X 480 I think (really not sure).

Well that's about it. Not sure what is causing the issue.


If you send me the image I'll play around with it.
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Calendyr
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Easy :

Under Windows XP Pro:

C:\WINDOWS\Web\Wallpaper\Crystal.jpg

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